CONTENTS.



CHAPTER                                            PAGE
   I. The Night before the Departure ....................   9  
   II. The Fate of the Flat-Boat .......................... 21
 III. The Two Scouts ........................      ..... 46
 IV. The Faint Hope................                 59
 V. The Mysterious Warning ........................... 70
 VI. The Frontier Angel-The Shawnees ................. 83
 VIr. The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties ........ go
VIII. A Man in Trouble ................................. i05
IX. Peter Jenkins-A Couple of Speeches ............... 127
  X. In which there is a Future Account of the Shawnees,
       the Speakers, and Jenkins ............. ........... 139
 XI. A Prize Gained and Lost .......................... 151
 XII. A Mingling of Fear, Doubt, and Hope .............. 174
 XIII. Dark ............................................. 189
XIV. The Attack in the Wood ........................... 201
XV. " All's Well that Ends Well ........................  225